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ThePalousearea is located in the located in the northwestern region of the United States. It covers parts of north central Idaho and southeastern Washington.
The actual origins of the name "Palouse" is uncertain. Some historians theorize that the name of the Palus tribe was converted by French-Canadian fur traders to the more familiar French wordpelouse, meaning "land with short and thick grass". Slowly over time, the spelling morphed into Palouse. A second theory speculates that the name was a French word in the beginning, describing an area which was then applied to the native peoples inhabiting it.
Geographically speaking, the Palouse region is outlined as the region of fertile hills and prairies north of the Snake River and north of the Clearwater River, which separates it from the Camas Prairie. It extends north along the Washington and Idaho border and is centered on the Palouse River.

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